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April 22 – May 6

Action Spotlight

Canvass, Phone Bank, or Postcard for Marc Friedenberg for US Congress!!

Williamsport:

Canvassing and phone banking at the Williamsport office. Plenty of parking on street, in the lot across the street, or in the Wegmans lot. Canvassing and phone banking shifts are 11-1 PM, 1-4 PM, and 4-8 PM. With any questions, please contact Field Rep Tony Buss at 330-749-5950 or tony@marcforpa.com. Sign up at https://marcforpa.com/events.

Lewisburg:

On Sunday, April 28 at 1 PM and 4 PM, launching from Hufnagle Park, we are canvassing for Marc and any local candidates that have literature they’d like to pass out. Luis Medina and Heidi Ruckno are the organizers. To sign up through Marc’s web site, click here. There is also an Events page set up on Heidi Ruckno’s Facebook page here.

West End of Union County:

The West End Progressives are organizing canvassing and phone bank volunteers in the Mifflinburg school district in Union County. For more information and to volunteer, please contact Sharon Koppel, sharonkoppel1@gmail.com . Canvassing is done in teams of two people in towns and walkable neighborhoods. Phone calling is done from your home on your own schedule with lists we provide. We are working hard to get Marc Friedenberg elected to Congress this spring!!! It is a special election. We need everyone to vote!

Send a Postcard:

Do you have the time and supplies to write five or ten fun, friendly election reminders against all the odds (again) to give Democratic voters in a deep Red district the chance to show up and blow up pundits’ predictions?

Event Spotlight

Join members of the Bucknell and greater Lewisburg communities to learn more about this important resolution. We will have ample time to discuss what the Green New Deal might look like for us, here in central PA.

Imagine, if you can, the Susquehanna Valley in the year 2050. What do you see? Do you envision the winding river, with ribbons of trees adorning its banks? Or fields of corn, gently sloping under an autumn sunset, with a glow so comforting you can feel its warmth?

Union County voters: Find local ballot info on Vote411.org! Vote411 is the League of Women Voters‘ interactive online resource for voters, where you can find nonpartisan information about the candidates in their own words. It complements the LWV’s printed Voters Guide that is distributed in post offices, municipal offices, libraries, banks, schools, and other locations around Union County. For more information about the 2019 municipal elections, contact the League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area.

Crossing the Divide/Hearing the Other Political Point of View. 10:30-12 PM. Donald Heiter Community Center, Lewisburg. The Joseph Priestley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will host a program about the power of civil discussion on Sunday, May 5. The guest speakers will be Penn Garvin and Mike Glazer, who are part of a group that has met regularly for the last two years to cultivate friendships and encourage productive communication in spite of widely diverging political opinions. They along with two other regulars were featured on the WKOK Sunrise Show on March 26. The audio is available online HERE.

Netroots Nation is one of the biggest national gatherings of grassroots activists. Their annual conference will be held in Philadelphia.

Self-Care

How do we model a movement that those not presently involved are drawn to be a part?

We all are interested in drawing more people into our political work whether into a specific organization or just in general into the resistance, electoral campaigns and social movement building that we in the HUB are working towards. We are often disappointed when others do not flock to our work and we need to find ways to bring more people in. We need to take a hard look at what we do that may make it difficult for others to join with us. Here are some questions for us to ask ourselves

Do we take the time to personally invite friends and colleagues to come with us to an event/work session/meeting? It’s the personal invitation and follow up that makes our work accessible to others.

Do we reach out to new people who do come to our groups and give them a specific task to do with others so they can begin to feel a part of the whole? Breaking down tasks is critical though sometimes it’s hard to figure out what a new person can do.

When we do a demonstration (for example, against a state representative) are we only focused on telling what we don’t like or do we reach out to folks in the office, on the street, etc. and talk with them about why we are doing this action? And even more important, are we willing to listen to them when they tell us what they think? We may be surprise to find some who agree with us.

Do we make sure that we have fun events together and invite others who are not part of our organizations to come? Whether we think so or not, we can seem intimidating and insular and it may be hard to find a way to relate to us.

Let’s start thinking about what we can do to attract more folks and expand our groups. As we learned from the great numbers who flocked to do the work right after the elections, they are out there!

Citizen Journalism

We need everyone to get involved and START ASKING QUESTIONS. We need to be our own investigative journalists. If there is an issue that concerns you, write about it and share it with us!